Shannon's Way

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A portmanteau of “binary digit,” a bit could be either a 1 or a 0, and Shannon’s paper is the first to use the word (though he said the mathematician John Tukey used it in a memo first).

Very rarely does one individual simultaneously make central contributions to all three — but Claude Shannon was a rare individual.This number quantifies the uncertainty involved in determining which message the source will generate. Indeed, the 5G standard currently rolling out uses not one but two practical codes proved to achieve Shannon’s speed limit.

Starting from Ballybunion reaching Knockanore the views are extensive of the Wild Atlantic Way the trail enters on the crown of the hill with the vista of the surrounding areas can only be described as Breath - Taking with the Monastic Scattery Island in the distance and the Shannon Estuary in full view this adds to the trail with wild flora and fauna in abundance. The heart of his theory is a simple but very general model of communication: A transmitter encodes information into a signal, which is corrupted by noise and then decoded by the receiver. If this book is over 5 years old, then please expect the pages to be yellowing or to have age spots. But over my career, as I had the opportunity to apply this philosophy in my own work, I began to understand.Shannon’s general theory of communication is so natural that it’s as if he discovered the universe’s laws of communication, rather than inventing them. But the engineering of communication systems was always tied to the specific source and physical medium. But more than 70 years ago, in a single groundbreaking paper, he laid the foundation for the entire communication infrastructure underlying the modern information age. Before Shannon, the problem of communication was primarily viewed as a deterministic signal-reconstruction problem: how to transform a received signal, distorted by the physical medium, to reconstruct the original as accurately as possible. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved.

pp 313 clean tight text front piece has a couple of light stains on top near hinge and some faded water marks on page after but no damage to text tanning to text pages blue cloth covers with purple shows light rubbing to hinges and bumped corners crimping to top/bottom spines some soiling to covers. Playing a central role in all three is the concept of an information “bit,” used by Shannon as the basic unit of uncertainty.

It was a transformative work, turning circuit design from an art into a science, and is now considered to have been the starting point of digital circuit design. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Finally, he showed that reliable communication of the information from the source in the face of noise is possible if and only if H< C.

Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. And while it was esoteric to the engineers of his day, Shannon’s theory has now become the standard framework underlying all modern-day communication systems: optical, underwater, even interplanetary. In reality, some sequences are much more likely than others, and the entropy rate is much lower, allowing for greater compression. The lower the entropy rate, the less the uncertainty, and thus the easier it is to compress the message into something shorter. Thus, information is like water: If the flow rate is less than the capacity of the pipe, then the stream gets through reliably.

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